Einstein's letters, theories, and Jewish legacy will live on in the hills of Jerusalem at the Hebrew University.

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...

The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat, the new head of the foundation that oversees the honours has warned.

Escher and Penrose found inspiration in each other’s work. In 1952, University College London awarded Penrose a bachelor of ...

The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that "cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt." In studying the history of the universe itself, there is always a ...

Intelligence is acquired liberally, however wisdom is rare. Wisdom is not what you know but it is how to use the knowledge.

Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John ...

More than 1,600 respondents reflected the chilling effect across research fields caused by the slashing of federal funding ...

By that point, Einstein was fairly confident that he would eventually win the Nobel Prize in Physics. And to convince Maric to sign the divorce papers, which she was at first reluctant to do ...

Today is March 14, known as Pi Day for the famous mathematical constant — but it’s also Albert Einstein’s birthday ... "He actually got the Nobel Prize for his study of the photoelectric ...